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Jilt   /dʒɪlt/   Listen
Jilt

verb
(past & past part. jilted; pres. part. jilting)
1.
Cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly.





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"Jilt" Quotes from Famous Books



... with her combs of lead, Whispers that Sappho's hair is red: Aura, whose tongue you hear a mile hence, Talks half a day in praise of silence; And Sylvia, full of inward guilt, Calls Amoret an arrant jilt. Now voices over voices rise, While each to be the loudest vies: They contradict, affirm, dispute, No single tongue one moment mute; All mad to speak, and none to hearken, They set the very lap-dog barking; Their chattering makes a louder ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... "such a matter was too serious for hints and innuendoes; if you wanted me to jilt my old servant and wed an acquaintance of yesterday, why not say so plainly? I dare say I should have obeyed you, and been unhappy for life; but now my honor is solemnly engaged; my faith is plighted; and were even you to urge me to break faith, and behave dishonorably, I should resist. I ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various


Words linked to "Jilt" :   woman, adult female, leave


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